If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place. Use this quote
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. Use this quote
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. Use this quote
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. Use this quote
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource. Use this quote
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. Use this quote
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. Use this quote
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. Use this quote
War is like love; it always finds a way. Use this quote
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. Use this quote
The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war. Use this quote
Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too. Use this quote
I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap. Use this quote
Sweat saves blood. Use this quote
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. Use this quote
Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate. Use this quote
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television. Use this quote
These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence. Use this quote
It is not only the living who are killed in war. Use this quote
The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues. Use this quote
